CorkScrewHill Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 (edited) I edited this to reflect that the seeds are based on twitter followers who associate with the team .. this is not a Fox issue it is an issue with me not reading. There is some interesting exchanges on fanbases, but overall a very bad post from me. My apologies. Anyway Go Bills! https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/ Edited September 2, 2021 by CorkScrewHill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJB Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Don't we usually end up seeded really low only to usually end up top 5? I'm good with being Cinderella here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDawkinstein Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 They have the Patriots as a #1 seed. Most of those "fans" are cheering for the Bucs nowadays. Garbage poll. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg S Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 These polls are meaningless. Buffalo has a reputation as a football mad city with great fans. Great tailgating with a college atmosphere in the stadium. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patience Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Top five fan bases: Buffalo, Green Bay, Cleveland, Kansas City, and Pittsburgh. Has been that way for decades and it remains the same. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blainorama5 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Fox Sports is on crack! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg S Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 1 minute ago, Patience said: Top five fan bases: Buffalo, Green Bay, Cleveland, Kansas City, and Pittsburgh. Has been that way for decades and it remains the same. Giants have to be on that list. They have always been sold out (same for the Jets as well). During the 70's they were awful but still packed Giants Stadium. I know they got rid of blacking out home games in the local market but even when that was around the Giants and Jets never had a blacked out home game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenorthremembers Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 10 minutes ago, DJB said: Don't we usually end up seeded really low only to usually end up top 5? I'm good with being Cinderella here. Pretty sure we won it last year, and the year before came in 2nd to a cheating Titans fan base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bills92 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 To the earlier point, the seeding is questionable as it based on twitter followers. Ironically our fan base is not a big fan of snapface as our peers in the Pats community Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollars 2 donuts Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 (edited) I read this news and I am outraged. So much so I will physically fight someone in defense of our fair team, and city's, honor and if need be I will willingly die* for it. (* I will not die for it, are you kidding me? Most of you around here don't even like me and I am going to die for your pride? Get bent! If put under any sort of physical duress I will most assuredly plead for my very life, possible cry, and most definitely p*** myself in the hopes that those standing over me will take pity on this poor excuse for a man. GO BILLS, though! ) Edited September 2, 2021 by dollars 2 donuts 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patience Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 1 minute ago, Greg S said: Giants have to be on that list. They have always been sold out (same for the Jets as well). During the 70's they were awful but still packed Giants Stadium. I know they got rid of blacking out home games in the local market but even when that was around the Giants and Jets never had a blacked out home game. Which fan base would you take out to include them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan in Cleveland Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 2 minutes ago, Patience said: Top five fan bases: Buffalo, Green Bay, Cleveland, Kansas City, and Pittsburgh. Has been that way for decades and it remains the same. Agree with that list with Baltimore, WFT, New Orleans, Denver, Seattle and maybe even the Giants in the discussion too. Don't know about teams like Tenn and even the Bears these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris heff Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 It’s Fox right? By their own admission they are not to be believed. 3 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg S Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 1 minute ago, Patience said: Which fan base would you take out to include them? That's a good question. Probably KC or Buffalo to be honest. Both the Chiefs and Bills didn't always sellout. For the Bills look at the attendance during the 70's and mid 80's. It was the same thing for KC during that time as well. Both teams played to crowds around 20,000 or less many times. The Giants have been sold out forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 FAKE NEWS!! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patience Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 23 minutes ago, Greg S said: That's a good question. Probably KC or Buffalo to be honest. Both the Chiefs and Bills didn't always sellout. For the Bills look at the attendance during the 70's and mid 80's. It was the same thing for KC during that time as well. Both teams played to crowds around 20,000 or less many times. The Giants have been sold out forever. I don't agree, but that's a good argument for including them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logic Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 I can't think of anything more silly than attempting to determine the best fan base in football by polling everybody on social media. It's great for the website, sure. It drives clicks and viewer engagement and gets everyone arguing and re-tweeting and yelling at each other on "First Take". But as an actual means of determining how good a fan base is? Clown shoes. We alllllll know where Bills fans rank. Fox Sports can run a poll a month until Jesus returns to the earth, and it won't change a thing. Clown shoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thurst44 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 54 minutes ago, CorkScrewHill said: They have the Cowboys as a 1 seed. I lived for a time in Dallas and went to a Cowboys game in Dallas .. they are a lifeless bunch of fair weather fans. They have the Texans as a 3 seed going up against the Bills as a 6 seed in round 1 - that is just insulting. The Bills out polled them 90.2 percent to 9.8%. I get that it is a meaningless poll, but sometimes this lack of respect kind of ticks me off. Go Bills! https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/ Yeah, it has us up against the Houston Texans, with them as a higher-rated seed which is on the surface, patently absurd. Has anyone ever met a Texans fan? However, it's the 4th biggest city in the country, so there are probably lots of people who put it reflexively on their Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook pages that they are a Texans fan in their bio without truly caring. However, being a Bills fan runs in the blood. Fox Sports could have at least matched us up with a different 3 seed as they know we are a much more frenzied and vocal fanbase (as that very Tweet makes clear) and making us an underdog to an expansion team that hasn't really found a huge footing yet is a bit insulting. Ultimately, it won't matter, because as a poster said upthread, we always wind up winning or placing in these things. It's a dumb metric though. For one things, in onboarding/unboxing, Twitter is more likely to recommend you either local teams or someone like the Dallas Cowboys or Green Bay Packers and passive fans will just say "sure". Also, it hardly measures the intensity of the fandom. I'm pretty positive if they measured it using an algorithm that took into account mentions or length of threads when teams are being talked about, we'd be higher up on the list. Just look what happens anytime anyone says a slightly bad thing about us on Twitter. Prognosticators will often apologize in advance or joke "Bills Mafia, don't come after me" when they say something slightly negative about our team. For a few years, I ran the content at a relatively short-lived social media site where you could "check-in" to things, mostly TV, and discuss them but since live sports have become one of the few major drivers of appointment television, NFL teams were a major component. It would always surprise me and depress me a bit how little chatter and how few check-ins there were on the Bills page and I would try to do what I could to juice conversation to no avail. However, I knew it had nothing to do with the ferocity of our fanbase (even if at the time we were over a decade into the drought), but had more to do with the quirks of the medium. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Duffy Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Lol, Fox...hahahah 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangarang Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 I just called in sick to work over this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 20th? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Duffy Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 1 minute ago, Beast said: 20th? Lol, wonder how they come up with these types of things. Those few other times that best or most loyal fan bases were ranked, I believe Bills fans were always one of the top if I remember correctly. So don't know how they determine this kind of stuff, but 20-24th seems a little off when looking at the ones before. Either way, still seems kinda meaningless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Digg? Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 At this point we all know the fan base the Bills have. When I saw the thread name I immediately thought of that wolves vs sheep analogy. Wolves don’t worry about the opinions of sheep. Bills fans are certainly wolves, fox sports are definitely the sheep 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie's Dead Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 LOL. Buffalo leads the league in TV ratings for Bills games on a per capita basis. We support our team better than any other fanbase out there. Ridiculous rankings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hondo in seattle Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 2 hours ago, Patience said: Top five fan bases: Buffalo, Green Bay, Cleveland, Kansas City, and Pittsburgh. Has been that way for decades and it remains the same. I don't particularly disagree. In fact, I think this is a pretty good Top Five list. I just want to point out that I currently live in KC and don't find the fans here to be as rabid as Bills fans. They don't wear their colors as much. They don't decorate their cars with team paraphernalia as much. They don't jump through flaming tables for their team. And so on. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man with No Name Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Ok. They either did this purposely, knowing the rep of the Bills Mafia, so they could get a little notoriety, or they had somebody who is completely clueless put it together. An intern who doesn't really understand the entire national scene perhaps. Who knows. But it was pathetically done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabattBlue Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Outrageous! How dare they! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctetta Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 The seeding is based on the number of Twitter followers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Otreply Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Fox is as Fox does, no shocker with that outfit…, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 3 hours ago, Greg S said: Giants have to be on that list. They have always been sold out (same for the Jets as well). During the 70's they were awful but still packed Giants Stadium. I know they got rid of blacking out home games in the local market but even when that was around the Giants and Jets never had a blacked out home game. Umm, they have just a wee bit larger population base to draw from… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straight Hucklebuck Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 (edited) Colin Cowherd, all the Jim Rome leftover/wannabees (Ben Maller, JT the Brick, Dan Byers), are all big-city LA Honks. They hate small market cities, especially in the rust belt. For them it's LA, Miami and nobody else really matters. Edited September 2, 2021 by Straight Hucklebuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WideNine Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 (edited) Edited September 2, 2021 by WideNine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Success Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 4 hours ago, DrDawkinstein said: They have the Patriots as a #1 seed. Most of those "fans" are cheering for the Bucs nowadays. Garbage poll. I mean, that immediately delegitimizes a poll like that. It's like they base it on traditionally "good" teams. If Pats fans had to go through the kind of drought the Bills did, about 75% of them would have been on to the Sox or Celtics by now. There is no comparison. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg S Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 1 minute ago, Success said: I mean, that immediately delegitimizes a poll like that. It's like they base it on traditionally "good" teams. If Pats fans had to go through the kind of drought the Bills did, about 75% of them would have been on to the Sox or Celtics by now. There is no comparison. If you mention Steve Grogan or Andre Tippett to a Pats fan most would have no idea who that is. Their "hard core" LOL fanbase thinks Pats football started with Parcells and Bledsoe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSE Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 I almost clicked but I am tired of being used 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wjag Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 5 hours ago, CorkScrewHill said: They have the Cowboys as a 1 seed. I lived for a time in Dallas and went to a Cowboys game in Dallas .. they are a lifeless bunch of fair weather fans. They have the Texans as a 3 seed going up against the Bills as a 6 seed in round 1 - that is just insulting. The Bills out polled them 90.2 percent to 9.8%. I get that it is a meaningless poll, but sometimes this lack of respect kind of ticks me off. Go Bills! https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/ Nice of them to give Buffalo a bye in the first round. Are there even Texan fans left anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJS Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 1 hour ago, ctetta said: The seeding is based on the number of Twitter followers. Wow, someone did some homework instead of just yelling profanities into the sky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalonian Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 You lost me at "Fox..." 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Mantis_Toboggan Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 (edited) There is us, Cleveland and Pittsburgh… Those are by far the most hardcore fan bases, and it’s not even close. In terms of diehard devotion to the team, their only rivals would be the “supporters” (as they call themselves) of British football clubs. Just now, Dr.Mantis_Toboggan said: Edited September 2, 2021 by Dr.Mantis_Toboggan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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